I think I wrote that he “stumbled through a nearby corridor,” nearby being the operative word here, meaning the mob was either the worst mob in history or just really, really stupid.Ībove: “The mob will never find me here.” Even though, ostensibly, they should have been able to, because he really didn’t go far. The mob breaks into his lair, but they can’t find him. Erik–-who looked like Gerard Butler in my brain because I had no other basis of comparison and also, I thought he was hot, thereby completely missing the “ugly” point, but whatever–-Erik breaks all the mirrors and cries and wanders down a corridor and cries some more. The story plays out as usual, and at the end, Christine leaves with Raoul. ![]() The fic essentially went something like this: I was ready, people, I was flexin’ my knuckles for a fix-it fic and I was full of whirling hormones and crying for no discernible reason other than the fact that I’m a crier, but also, I was 13 and “Erik is so lonely!” I actually remember sitting down to write this thing in my brown, spiral-bound, Mead 5 Star notebook at, like, 10 pm on a Saturday night after aggressively photosynthesizing the entirety of ’s Phantom section on my dial-up AOL connection.Ībove: Me at 13 about to pen a cultural touchstone with my hot pink gel pen while the Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack plays in the background. Me, stumbling into the Phantom fandom, aged 13:īut, like any 13 year-old in 2004 whose sole ambition was to be Amy Lee and also Anna Valerious from Van Helsing at all times, I had to rewrite the Phantom’s ending. ![]() I know, with the single-minded conviction of a medieval Christian martyr, that this is what I have been waiting for. ![]() It is my first exposure to Phantom besides the silent film I have never seen the musical before now. ![]() I, a 13-year-old closet goth for whom everything is worthy of an overdramatic Shakespearean reaction, watch the movie. This might get long because I can’t shut up, but I’ll put some nice pictures in here to break up the wall of text: HAVE I SERIOUSLY NOT TOLD YOU GUYS ABOUT MY HORRIBLE 7TH GRADE PHANTOM FIC?
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